Domestic Violence

 Domestic violence, also known as domestic abuse or family abuse is derogatory actions and blatant aggression made toward people in a domestic setting. Domestic violence is done when people are in an intimate relationship with each other. Violence towards partners and/or other family members can be as small as emotional mistreatment to as big as constant molestation. Many cases of domestic abuse have led to the victim’s death. Stoning, bride burning, dowry death and honour killing are different forms of domestic murder. 

 

  

 

The form of abuse varies on the assailant; abuse is commonly done through:  

Physical abuse: Physical abuse is defined as any intentional act of bodily contact that causes damage or trauma to another person or animal. Physical abuse most commonly affects children, but it can also affect adults, as in situations of marital violence or professional aggressiveness. Physical assault or physical violence are other phrases that are occasionally employed. More than one abuser and more than one victim may be involved in physical abuse. Physically abused children are more likely to have later interpersonal issues, such as aggressive behaviour, and teenagers are more likely to develop drug use disorders. People who have been physically assaulted are also more likely to have sadness, grief, and suicidal thinking. Posttraumatic stress disorder has also been linked to children who have experienced physical abuse, according to research.  Many children who are physically abused as youngsters are at risk of becoming abusive as adults. Other possible psycho-biological consequences of child physical abuse on parenting have been identified by researchers as battered children grow up. These latest discoveries may be influenced, at least in part, by epigenetic modifications that affect stress physiology control. The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) research has shown a slew of additional potentially significant effects of childhood physical abuse on teenage and adult physical and mental health and development.

 

 

Verbal abuse: Verbal abuse is a form of psychological/mental abuse that involves the use of spoken, gestured, or written communication aimed toward a victim. Harassment, labelling, insulting, scolding, rebuking, and excessive screaming are all examples of verbal abuse. It can also involve the use of pejorative terminology, as well as the delivery of comments meant to intimidate, humiliate, discourage, or ridicule another person. It's a form of abuse in which the assailant undermines the victim's self-concept, lowering their self-esteem and making them feel helpless. The victim may have mental and/or emotional suffering as a result of these types of assaults. Abusing another person verbally or physically is a maladaptive behaviour that can occur at any moment, especially under stressful situations. Abusing or assaulting another person is a maladaptive behaviour that can occur at any moment, especially under stressful situations or when one is feeling substantial physical distress. It may also be employed as a defence mechanism when someone believes they are being assaulted by someone else, or as a means of exacting vengeance on someone. Verbal abuse, on the other hand, may be used to control people on purpose. Verbal abuse also includes cyber bullying and gaslighting.

 

 

Emotional abuse: Psychological abuse, also known as emotional abuse, is when someone subjects or exposes another person to behaviour that causes psychological trauma, such as anxiety, chronic depression, or post-traumatic stress disorder. Bullying, gaslighting, and workplace abuse are examples of circumstances where there is a power imbalance in abusive relationships. Abusers who use emotional abuse tend to think that they’re the real victims. Many times victims try to talk about their feelings and thoughts with their abusers but abusers get offended and gaslight the victim into thinking the opposite, silencing the victim and worsening their state of mind.

 

 

Economic abuse: Economic abuse, also known as financial abuse is taking over the victim’s control of their money and making be completely dependent on the assailant (in domestic violence). Dowry death is an example of economic abuse. When the bride and her family are unable to pay the decided amount of dowry both the families decided on, the bride’s husband and in-laws start to torture her which leads to the bride’s death or straightaway just murder her. Forcing old people to leave off all their money to the abuser is another example of economic abuse. When realising that one of their in-law, parent or another parental figure is getting old and close to death, assailants force them to change their will to the abuser’s name. If that isn’t bad enough, the abusers will make their conditions worse by speeding up the victim’s death to inherit the money quicker.

 

 

Religious abuse: is abuse that is perpetrated in the presence of religion, through harassment and humiliation that can cause psychological harm. The misuse of religion for selfish, secular, or ideological objectives, such as the abuse of a clergy position. This type of abuse is not only done towards people that follow the same religion (as the assailant) but also towards people from other religions. Assailants that conduct this form of abuse enforce their religious beliefs on people who don't do the same. Assaulters would defend themselves with the presence of their religion to pretence the victim to seem like the bad guy for not following the same pietism as them.

 

Sexual abuse: Sexual abuse, often known as molestation, is harmful sexual behaviour perpetrated by one person against another. It is frequently carried out with the use of force or by taking advantage of someone. Sexual assault occurs when force is used in an abrupt, brief, or infrequent manner. The word also encompasses any sexually stimulating behaviour by an adult or older adolescent toward a kid. Kid sexual abuse, often known as statutory rape, occurs when a child or other person under the age of consent is used for sexual stimulation. On a webcam, live streaming sexual abuse includes human trafficking, compelled sexual activities, and even rape.

 

 

Psychological effects of domestic violence

 

 

Domestic violence frequently happens when the assailant feels he or she is entitled to it, or that it is acceptable, justifiable, or doubtful to be reported. It may result in an intergenerational cycle of violence among children and other family members who believe such behaviour is appropriate or permitted. Many people do not see themselves as abusers or victims since their experiences are viewed as out-of-control family conflicts. Domestic violence is widely recognised, perceived, defined, and documented in different countries.